Humanity's 10 greatest inventions: the other 9?

[CassidyAce]

Toothpaste.

Cake.

The 'Mute' button.

 

[greencat]

20th Century? Aeroplane, Saturn V, personal computer, world wide web, haber-bosch process, DNA sequencing/synthesis, organ transplantation, IVF, solar power, LED, lithium ion battery...it was an amazing century really.

 

[LondonClassic]

TCP/IP

Its how you're able to read this, after all.

 

[doctor-bond]

Setting aside extended discoveries like tea, coffee, beer, bread and marmite …..
All human history - concrete. That shit is insane.
20th C: dull answer: solid state electronics. Better - the aerofoil (aircraft wing).

 

[bikeworkshop]

Concrete is good (Romans?), but I suspect ants of making something like it??
Or swifts?

But I'm sure we can't claim the aerofoil - even plants had that...
https://howthingsfly.si.edu/media/airfoil

 

[KermitGKona88]

Sliced bread...

 

[bikeworkshop]

Sliced bread...

Amazing to think we developed leavened bread as a by product of brewing.
Priorities

 

[grantoury]

For all of history it has to be script.

 

[doctor-bond]

Concrete is good (Romans?), but I suspect ants of making something like it??
https://howthingsfly.si.edu/media/airfoil

Concrete and termites proving each other right here:

We can’t claim the aircraft wing? You’ll be telling me next that I didn’t invent bicycle polo during the May half term in 1978!

 

[KermitGKona88]

Hawaiian shirts...